As usual we got a late start setting all the clocks back one hour. For some reason the TV station announcements failed to impress the urgency with which this matter must be dealt. I scrawled a note on the white board where all the doctors appointments get scribbled along with the grocery list and other sundry items.
Husband made the appointed rounds to the analog clocks, the digital clocks. Fortunately the computers, radios and TV's do all of that automatically. However, the time on the telephone is still unchanged...weird.
All of which brings me to this little item. Earlier this year all of us registered voters in Oregon agreed that daylight savings time was to be discarded. Hooray! Hooray! Then I promptly forgot about it.
Until yesterday evening. The local news announced the upcoming time change on Saturday at 2 a.m. and then added that the Oregon vote was CONTINGENT on Washington and California agreeing to do the same thing.
Washington is on board. However, the law in California is stuck either in the House or in Committee. I forget which. Well, crap, with that California is dealing with right how, FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!!! I think maybe the daylight savings time thing will be a tad delayed. Gah!!!
Given that southern California seems to be geographically within Mountain Standard Time that Nevada and Idaho should just jump on the bandwagon and bring in Arizona which already eschews DST in some parts of the state. Could Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico be far behind?
Come on all you conservatives, here is your chance to beat the liberals on something. Get rid of that Socialist Notion of saving time for the farmers to complete the Summer Harvest. Or the Farm Bill or something awreddy.
Husband made the appointed rounds to the analog clocks, the digital clocks. Fortunately the computers, radios and TV's do all of that automatically. However, the time on the telephone is still unchanged...weird.
All of which brings me to this little item. Earlier this year all of us registered voters in Oregon agreed that daylight savings time was to be discarded. Hooray! Hooray! Then I promptly forgot about it.
Until yesterday evening. The local news announced the upcoming time change on Saturday at 2 a.m. and then added that the Oregon vote was CONTINGENT on Washington and California agreeing to do the same thing.
Washington is on board. However, the law in California is stuck either in the House or in Committee. I forget which. Well, crap, with that California is dealing with right how, FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!!! I think maybe the daylight savings time thing will be a tad delayed. Gah!!!
Given that southern California seems to be geographically within Mountain Standard Time that Nevada and Idaho should just jump on the bandwagon and bring in Arizona which already eschews DST in some parts of the state. Could Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico be far behind?
Come on all you conservatives, here is your chance to beat the liberals on something. Get rid of that Socialist Notion of saving time for the farmers to complete the Summer Harvest. Or the Farm Bill or something awreddy.
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....and once all of the west coast states agree, which I know they are working on in California, it has to go to Congress to get ratified. From what I understand that will happen sometime before Oct 2020.
We in Washington voted to stay on DST permanently too, can't wait.
The article below is CA satus
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article234946067.html
Carla
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